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David Crowe (Senior Film Lecturer)

David Crowe is the Head of the Film Department at SAE Creative Media Institute in Sydney where he manages the film program, a team of film lecturers, and teaches undergraduate and post-graduate film topics.

David worked for fourteen years on feature film and television crews in Australia before he started teaching film in Sydney. Some of the productions he worked on include the feature films "Oscar & Lucinda”, “Fortress”, “The Junction Boys”, “Kangaroo Jack”, “Subterano”, “Dogwatch” and “Mr. Accident”, as well as TV series’ "Ultraman: Towards the Future”, “Escape of the Artful Dodger”, “The Valley Between”, and “The River Kings”. In association with talented collaborator Adam Spellicy, David has also directed and produced music videos for “The Superjesus”, “The Mark of Cain”, “Lizard Train”, and “The Dumb Earth”, as well as having directed a series of TV commercials in South Australia.

David has written a book on Music Video Production that is in use as a curriculum text at tertiary level, and he has also contributed various articles for industry publications on camera techniques, film theory, and software reviews. He is a member of the Australian Cinematographers Society, and is a regular film festival juror.

David studied a Bachelor of Arts (with a double major in Drama and Visual Arts) at Flinders University in Adelaide, and has since completed a Master of Arts through Middlesex University where he graduated with first class honours. His Masters topic looked at the design and concepts of Stereoscopic 3-D in higher education. As a result of this, David has delivered seminar papers at conferences such as the SMPTE11 Conference, and the Revelation Academic Film Conference in Western Australia in 2018 on this topic. David has also won a 'Creative & Scholarly Award' awarded by his current employer for this same work, and he is completing a PhD in this area of film education. David is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.